THE NEW GUINEA PROSPECTORS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 164, 26 April 1872, Page 6

THE NEW GUINEA PROSPECTORS.

It appears that, the members of this expedition, mimberiiig no less than seventy-five, had/ a comfortable passage during the first part of their voyage, the utmost good feeling prevailincr, and various exercises and. amusements being engaged in on board. Several members of the expedition being connected with respectable families in the colony much anxiety has naturally been felt by friends and the public as to their success. The whole of them, with the exception of one gentleman, shipped as officers and seamen, in order to obviate the necessity of the vessel sailing out of the porh under the provisions of the Immigration .' Act. The brig was to have been commanded by Captain Gillespie, who, however, left the vessel at the latest moment, and she was taken to sea by Mr Srathman, the first mate, who is said to have left the wreck, with the best boat;'with the crew of six men, two hours after the vessel struck

the roef. Ten others on''a piece of wreck, and about thirty others on r a' i raft. The brig, which was heavily: lad-

en with stores, tools, etc., for the pur poses of the expedition, commenced to fill immediately she struck, and went down at seven o'clock the same morning—that is, about four hours after going oil the reef.... Two boats, containing 28 passengprs, reached Cardwell at noon on Monday, 4th March. The following persons were to be on board: —Dr. Tate, surgeon ; Messrs, Sanderson, Hargraves, Pegus, Crommelin Arps, Jacob, Dickinan, Grobel, Misdale, Powel, Robinsou, Grrey, King, Keonig, Wright, Chailon, Schwffiing, Hocroft, Hess, Fox, Ramsay, Lane, BroaeTbent, Barclay, Hyman, Lefin and Jack, a sailor. On their landing, provision was immediately made for housing and supplying their wants by the police magistrate, Mr. Sheridan, and the same steamer Tinpnee was despatched at four o'clock on Tuesday morning to seek for those who were missing. After visiting the wreck, she returned to port the same evening, without having discovered any traces of either of the parties; but on Wednesday, Hugh Finny, and three others of the survivors reached : Cardwell in a wounded state. Finny immediately telegraphed to his wife in Sydney as follows :—" Just arrived, after nine days in bush and boat; attacked by blacks; narrowly escaped with severe .wounds,': Five others supposed to be .killed..Progressing favorably," Of the ultimate fate of those on the rafts, particulars have already appeared, and been given in telegrams.

LATEST MINING- NEWS. It is reported that a large party of the Kiug natives wish to open-up the land at Tuhua, where gold has been discovered. Honia, however has written to stop the road between Raglan arid Waipa. - Three hundred and fifty-three and a quarter ounces of goid were, obtained in two-days recently from the Prussians' claim at Stockyard Creek, Gripps Land. , . -... . -.. .- ,;••..■ • --■-.'

A rush has taken place to the.' left"•-.': branch of Nelson Creek, about four ;. miles above Hatters' Terrace. There . are about, six op seven claims on gold. The "sinking is and all the : ground is taken up, : ■■: . ~..,.>;;; : Splendid stone has been obtained from the. Moanataiari and Cure claims; The market is active. Monataiari, £5; Albumia, £4< ; Cure, £ll 2s. While a few miners have left Otago. ; for the South African diamond fields, a West Coast paper says that several miners from these fields have . coirie to .New Zealand, to try their luck at the : Inangahua reefs. • ... ( ■ ;The. correspondent of the " ' Herald'■ telegraphs from Alexandra . that the King-has received a bag of ; specimens of gold-bearing quartz from ; Tuhua,,at the head ,of the Wanganur':' river. The sight o: the stone seems to have inflamed the cupidity of the Kingites, and they are all anxious; to turn diggers. Rewi Maniapoto has gone to:;.f Tuhua. .':"."" "."; ••■ • - ■:••.";

The Tiohborne C-Ise.—The jury- ;, stopped the Tiehborne trial on the 'sth. "''" March. ' At the request of Sergeant 7 > Ballantyne, the Court was adjourned V for one day, when a' nonsuit was : cepted after consultation with Mir. ;' Giffard. Chief Justice Bovill ordered the plaintiff to be taken into custtrdy v for perjury, and detained in Newgate;' till the next session of the Criminal.. Court, unless bail to the amount bf £SOOO were offered. The Government has undertaken the prosecution. • A. telegram, dated March 14th, says' :-r- ■ " Several witnesses prove the Tiehborne7 claimant to be Arthur Ortpn; - The -■ Judge has refused the offered bail, and will consent to the prosecution todav." : : .;•,■;-. '- ':■-/■■ :".':

, The Bkneeit opEhieistdlt SociETiiss. —Eecently Chief Justice Arney case brought before him in Chambers, which illustrates the advantages of friendly societies: ' Upon enquiry de lunatico being taken it transpired that Henry Cowan had been in' the lunatic asylum for seven years and a-half, arid during the whole 6f that period his wife received a weekly allowance amounting to 18s. a-week, and -'subject only to an annual reduction, according to a fixed scale/ i Moreover, the lodge have undertaken to look after the poor man, Tyhose discharge they have obtained. '